Samuel NOYES was born on 25 Aug 1754 in Atkinson, Rockingham, New Hampshire. He died on 9 Jun 1845 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire.81 (Ae. 90y 10m.) Served in the Revolutionary War from Plaistow. Co. Cdr. Ezekiel Giles; Regt. Cdr. Lt.. Col. Jos. Welsh.

In the early part of 1834 several energetic citizens of Canaan, and prominent among them was the lawyer, George Kimball, procured subscriptions sufficient to build a house, and to buy half an acre of land, for grounds. It was located in the field next south of the Congregational Meeting House, with an ornamental fence in front. There were sixty contributors to the enterprise, and chief among them stood the venerable farmer, Samuel Noyes, for whom the contemplated school was named. The amount subscribed was $1,000, of which sum only $80 was subscribed by the opponents of the school, and only $20 of that was ever paid, the friends of the school offering at that time to assume the whole $80. Application was made to the legislature for a charter which was granted July 4, 1834, to Samuel Noyes, George Kimball, Nathaniel Currier, George Walworth and John H. Harris, as incorporators of Noyes Academy . The charter provided for the “education of youth.” That the corporation could hold estate not to exceed $15,000, to be divided into one thousand shares of $15 each. Property by way of gift could be held to any amount.

The experiment ended poorly: https://dartmouthslaveryproject.wordpress.com/black-alumni/noyes-ac... which reads in part: While the Academy had many notable members, what is most notable is the brevity of its existence. Soon after the Abolitionist founders and trustees of the school had fought for the right to teach “all colors and races,” rumors of black vagabonds running rampant through the town if the school were allowed to continue spread among the townspeople, until, mere months later, a mob lead by Jacob Trussell, who had built one of the town churches with George Kimball, one of Noyes’ founders, used (90 or more) oxen to drag the school into a swamp and burned it.

• http://www.theliberatorfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/The-Lib... describes the complicity of the townspeople of Canaan and Hanover.

one of the students was Henry Highland Garnet the abolitionist

• September 5, 1835 from William Lloyd Garrison LIBERATOR

Removal of Noyes Academy

Three Selectmen of the town of Canaan deny a published statement that the citizens of the town support the school. Then follows an account of the removal of the school.

This is the story of the vote at a Town Meeting, held July 31, at which there was a vote to remove the school, and a committee appointed to discharge that duty, “the performance of which, they believe the interest of the town, the honor of the state, and the good of the whole community, (both black and white) required without delay.” Then follows the account of how three hundred people, with ninety to one hundred oxen, carried out the work “with very little noise, considering the number engaged, until the building was safely landed on the common near the Baptist meeting-house, …..” The account claims the duty to have been carried out in the “spirit of ‘75”, and in memory of those who have fought and fell struggling for liberty.

• another source, same topic : http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dartlife/archives/15-5/noyes.html

but for a definitive history, read Chapter 18 of The History of Canaan By William Allen Wallace (modern histories white-wash the actualities of the day)